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Saturday, August 18, 2007

Work, Winter Colds, Footy

2 weeks after I got home, we went to see Gwen Stefani at the Rod Laver Arena. Since GS is from Anaheim, it reminded us a lot of home. She put on a terrific concert. A couple of days later Brian got a bad cold or flu and then I caught it. It was tough cause I still had to lecture. I went to the doctor last week and got antibiotics. I'm feeling a lot better except for the fact that our footy team, the Carlton Blues, lost again today. Unlike most games for the past 3 years where they have been hopelessly behind they only lost to the Essendon Bombers in the last few minutes. Asta is comforting me. On a higher note, my college football team, the USC Trojans should have another winning season.

About Me

I'm a native of southern California. After attending USC, and pursuing a life of aimless partying in the seedy underbelly of Los Angeles, I was inspired to study archaeology after seeing the movie Lawrence of Arabia and reading 17 books about TE Lawrence. I did my MA and PhD at UCLA, where I also excavated in California, Syria, and Greece. Now I teach archaeology at Melbourne Uni, but I'll always be a native Angeleno at heart. I love pets and have had many, but my last 3 have been wire haired fox terriers.